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2 November 2026
Depticted: Hryhorii Skovoroda
Рішуче до сродної праці!
Remarks for the II International Scientific and Practical Conference “The Folk-Instrumental Art of Slobozhanshchyna in the Musical Culture of Ukraine: History, Traditions, the …
17 October 2026
A Small Music Festival
Above: composer David Amram, with flutist Mindy Kaufmann, left; pianist Molly Morkoski, right, at The Village Trip 26, held at St. John’s in the Village, where the piano and the audience are both on the same level.
To step away …
14 September 2026
I defend 12EDO these days becasue it gets a bad rap. It is a quasicrystal, and creates the frictionless behavior within that is structurally the same as the frictionless – superconducting! property of some quasicrystals.
Quasicrystals do appear in …
24 August 2026
The Death of Tragedy
My readings of Stifter and Jean Paul, my hearings of Brahms and Schumann, these clashed last night with Schiller’s essays on tragedy, the sublime, and the pathetic. The death of tragedy fell quickly out of that …
26 October 2023
In progress…
Yesterday at Oktaven Studios in Mount Vernon, New York, Cygnus recorded Martin Boykan’s “Diptych” and Richard Festinger’s “Hidden Spring”.
Some notes on Boykan, HERE. Those comments mostly about …
12 February 2022
Frank Brickle is now, I believe, working on setting The Compete Poetical Works of TE Hulme. This is a worthy project that must be seen to completion.
One of the features that webmaster Marc Wolf set up on this blog is “categories”. One …
9 March 2021
Do you like your authenticity plain or with tinctures?
–spices, bitters, memories of ornamentation, of styles?
—As always—click and listen. Don’t read!—
Above–a Bernard Maybeck building. Maybeck’s work …
5 March 2021
RSF/Marsyas is hoping to include this on an upcoming release of music by David Loeb.
Gaunkyo
for sho and viol quartet
In Gaunkyo David Loeb combines the Japanese shō with archaic Western string instruments–viols. Likewise, modal melodies and …
